I have been obsessively working through my PSE class.  Since I just signed up for the Photography class to learn how to better utilize my SLR camera, and I want to sign up for the Designer’s class coming up in October, I thought I would try and finish the PSE class as soon as possible.  One of the tutorials utilized a site called Wordle.  I found it interesting enough that I thought I’d share.  You can basically create “word clouds”.  I used it to make this layout:

You type in words, and it arranges it in different ways.  I think this is such a neat and useful toy.

This is what happens when you’re home from college, no gainful summer employment, and sleeping until 3:00pm: You become the victim subject of your mother’s latest obsession interest – photography! I found another challenge, a photography/scrap layout one.  The challenge was to photograph a person or animal jumping.  Since my eldest is back at his apartment, my daughter has a bum knee from ACL surgery, and  tossing our already neurotic poodle in the air was out of the question, the task fell on my younger son.  When he woke at 3:00pm, I marched him outside and had him jump several times while I attempted to take “action” shots.  He didn’t even have time to put on his contacts – he is wearing his “cool Martin Scorsese glasses” (as he puts it) – I offered to put masking tape on it :-).  And here are my/his efforts:

And here is the layout I made for the challenge:

I had a lot of fun.  And younger son proceeded to go to our local Family Services Organization for his volunteer work :-).

I can’t seem to stop doing challenges and layouts. Here is one of my daughter when she was a sweet little thing – before she turned into the teenager who knows everything! 🙂 Just kidding – she’s a great girl :-):

I just did a layout for another challenge, and used a photo of my daughter and her friends from their last trip to the beach before school started: